I have searched far and wide for evidence of the mythical Skittles.
As the tale goes, young Trayvon went to the store, to get the tea and candy for his younger brother.
...I’ve got a question - that means his brother was in the apartment, right? And he didn’t notice that Trayvon never came back...and maybe put two and two together, with the whle gunshots and police siren thing? He just went to bed...no questions asked?
....And the next day, the father thought Trayvon must have gone to the movies with his cousin. Little brother didn’t mention the gas station run...gunfire, police at the scene for 7 hours, etc?
Ok, I guess little brother saw nothing out of the ordinary.
Anyway, back to the story....Young Trayvon had Skittles and Tea when he was shot, according too...well, I dunno. I’ve read the police report, and not seen them mentioned. No witness has come forth, saying they saw the Skittles and Tea. We haven’t been served up with the foreboding screen cap of Young Trayvon buying the Skittles..or seen the interview with the clerk who sold them to him.
Heck, the gated community is private property, and the standard issue ‘wailing wall’ can not be set up there. Wouldn’t the next most logical place be on the sidewalk, outside of the Skittle supply outlet?
Nothing. Nada.
The entire Skittles meme appears to be made up...and continues to be reported as absolute fact.
I wish I were amazed.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/the_story_unravels_new_questions_about_trayvon_martins_final_hour.html
What about the trip to the 7-Eleven? Some people have speculated that Martin didn't even go there, that "Skittles" and "tea" were code words for drugs. But Zimmerman does report him holding something, and apparently the can and candy were removed from the crime scene. The story about the Skittles originated with the lawyer for the Martin family, Benjamin Crump. A spokesman for the law office confirmed that the information came from Martin's girlfriend, and also, he believed, from a call to Tracy Martin. The law office hadn't corroborated their account by looking at security camera tapes or at an electronic receipt from the store.
But a video does exist. The public relations director of 7-Eleven told me that, according to the company's manager of security, a store camera captured an African-American male (she wouldn't commit to "young") purchasing a bag of Skittles and a can of tea (she wouldn't say that it was "Arizona" tea). The hard disk with the video was removed after the story broke, and it has been subpoenaed by investigators for the state and/or county. The company has not made it available to the media. The public relations director could not specify the exact time of the purchase but said it was between 6:00 and 6:30.
The 7-Eleven, according to maps.google, is 0.8 miles from the entrance to The Retreat at Twin Lakes, a 16-minute walk. There is not much to see or do on Rinehart Road on a Sunday night, and it was raining hard. Even if he was not bringing the tea and Skittles to his stepbrother but was eating and sipping en route, Martin should have arrived back at his dad's fiancée's place before 6:50, and much earlier if he left the store closer to 6:00 than 6:30. According to logs (now deleted from the department's website), Zimmerman called the Sanford police at 7:09:34.
I've been puzzling on that factoid myself. It doesn't make sense.